Who is the Salvador Dali of music?

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― Your Full Name, Saturday, 31 May 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

― Avida Dollars (Momus), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

A good case could be made for Fifty Foot Horse - early electronic r'n'b acid fabulousness...

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

and who is the kali of music? (and if she doesn't chop my head off I'll marry her)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Jion Zorno for Dali
(runners-up: don Captain B, Serge y Kurjohhinson, Hanseatic von Eisler... even Frodo of Frith, mayhaps ...just don't invoke Franco Zappolini, phleeze)

for Kali: that bloodthisrty pyromaniac Me(n)talist Vikingson OBV
(one doth not speaketh his name)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 May 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Edward Elgar:

http://www.moustache-database.freeservers.com/music/elgar.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 May 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on people, concentrate. It's Lee Perry, obviously.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 31 May 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Well Dali's whole schtick was keeping a canvas at the foot of his bed and painting his dreams when he woke up, wasn't it? So whoever it is, they'd have to be into dream pop. Plus Dali was a perfectionist, and his art was very clean, almost asinine or antiseptic, compared to Picasso or Klee. He often made use of wide vistas in his paintings, and a sense of large scale but little depth, much broader than say Matisse, who worked in smaller contexts and with greater depth. So whoever it is would have to be meticulous and slightly passionless almost and have a sense of scale but not depth. Hmmm... Jason Pierce?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aphex twin,if judged on the dream thing

― robin (robin), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

dali...was he any good then?

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

aphex was the first thing that came to my mind. but i dunno..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

flashy but best heard by 16 year old wannabees?

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

could it be Senor Coconut?

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

nah, i like him...

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott Walker

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

was dali painting cheesy but well stroked copies of romantic pop(ular) culture in the ealy days a la scott?

quite possibly. i have seen his crucifix drawings.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still Lee Perry: faking madness, bizarre dandyism, oracular pronouncements, paranoia, strange relationship with rich muse.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

diamanda galas is the nearest thing to kali.

― woland, Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dali did write an opera with Igor Wakhevitch called "Etre Dieu" -- Wakhevitch placing high in the running for being named in this thread in his own right. Anyway, Etre Dieu is mostly spoken word over often interesting orchestral music, though perhaps not as out there as you might think.

― dleone (dleone), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i wouldn't mind at all if colin s had the final word on the Dali/ Perry topic :-)
the Scratch's a very serious contender

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to say Aphex Twin as well

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

fifty foot hose were like pram 35 years ago.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

were any of pram alive 35 years ago?

< /bad joke >

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, fifty foot hose were like pram only 35 years before pram existed.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

or 25

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

and pram look pretty weathered anyhow.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

obviously, david bowie is the salvador dali of music. make of it what you will.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Amanda Lear.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

surely it's the bass player from husker du ?

― bob snoom, Sunday, 1 June 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

snoom wins!

''diamanda galas is the nearest thing to kali.''

yeah, I think lydia lunch might be in there as well but it depends whether you consider spoken word albs to be music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean who is the Dali of music in the sense of who is an extremely gifted craftsman but a not very substantial artist (and a distinctly minor intellect) who frittered away what talent he had in pointless self-aggrandizing displays of "shock" and extravanganza which covered up the fact that he was a) artistically dead and had been since his late twenties and b) was basically and shy and insecure little boy who never matured into an adult? I'll get back to you on that one.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 1 June 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

that sounds like every rock star ever, Dadaismus!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

You're right!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the residents.

― jOOLS, Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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